TIME The Year in Review 2024
The Year in Review 2024
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HOW DONALD TRUMP WON • Election Day returned him to the White House and could mean massive changes to America.
PRESIDENT BIDEN DROPS OUT OF THE RACE • Less than a month after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump, Joe Biden stepped aside so Vice President Kamala Harris could make a run for the White House.
TWO ATTEMPTS TO KILL THE PRESIDENT • Donald Trump was wounded once and then faced a second assassination attempt, and the head of the Secret Service resigned.
George Santos
Jack Teixeira
Ten Commandments
Robert Menendez
CAMPUS UNREST • The war in Israel and the Palestinian territories played out at American colleges as the Middle East conflict became a flash point about bias and the extent of freedom of speech.
POLICING THE COURT • A spate of questionable actions by the high court’s justices has renewed calls for an enforceable code of ethics.
Trump’s Legal Woes
A Devastating Storm
The Francis Scott Key Bridge
Gun Violence
Julian Assange
Letting Fish Swim Free
A Journalist Comes Home
Musket Balls
UKRAINE ON THE ATTACK • The nearly three-year-long war saw Ukraine taking the fighting into Russian territory.
Loss of a Political Dissident
A Resurgent Right
An Expanding Alliance
King Charles and Princess Kate’s Cancer Diagnoses
Demanding Love, Not Hate
Notre Dame
World Briefs
A YEARLONG WAR NOW ENGULFS THE MIDDLE EAST • The conflict that started with Hamas’s murderous assault in October 2023 has turned into a spiraling regional battle.
House of Worship
Death of a President
A Humanitarian Crisis
Same-Sex Marriage
Hasina Flees
Saber-Rattling
Toppling a Drug Kingpin
A Queen Is Anointed
Democracy in Danger
One Very, Very Big Sparkler
TO THE MOON AND BEYOND • For the first time since 1972, the U.S. seeks to return and set up a long-term base.
Preventing a Plague
Debilitating Illness
Combating Malaria
Vaccine Approval
All the Buzz
The Nazca Ridge
Science Briefs
Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
C’EST MAGNIFIQUE! • The City of Light pulled out all the stops for the XXXIII Olympiad, with Paris’s iconic venues serving as both backdrops and arenas for the 10,500 competitors.
Gabby Thomas and Cole Hocker
Katie Ledecky
Khelif and Lin
Ezra Frech
Another Chiefs Super Bowl Win
World Series Champion Dodgers
Caitlin Clark
Sports Briefs
THE ERA OF TAYLOR • The pop-music goddess wowed adoring audiences with an epic tour and lots of new songs.
Billy Joel
Mozart String Trio
Music Briefs
Queen B Goes Country
The Taste of Things
Will & Harper
Movie Briefs
Inside Out 2
It Ends with Us
Alec Baldwin Case
Sean Combs
Harvey Weinstein
A Mouse in the Public Domain
Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Stereophonic
An Enemy of the People
A New Ending for Turandot
Shōgun
Only Murders in the Building
TV Notes
Ncuti Gatwa
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa
Books Briefs
Banned Books
SmartLess $100 Million Deal
JAMES EARL JONES • The acclaimed actor with the sonorous voice gave us Darth Vader and King Mufasa.
Willie Mays
Chita Rivera
Paul Auster
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
O.J. Simpson
Peter Higgs
Susan Wojcicki
John Amos
Ethel Kennedy
Phil...
